I am still looking for a good source for manufacturing data by country and year. Today I found some data from the United Nations Statistics Division. The data for the top five manufacturing economies: China, Germany, Japan, United Kingdom and United States. Figures are in current $US billion. The data used is for Mining, Manufacturing and Utilities (because China and Germany do not have manufacturing data separated out).
| Country |
2001 |
2002 |
2003 |
2004 |
| United States |
1,781 |
1,779 |
1,876 |
2,012 |
| Japan |
991 |
929 |
1017 |
|
| China |
507 |
551 |
638 |
754 |
| Germany |
421 |
449 |
545 |
613 |
| United Kingdom |
280 |
283 |
322 |
378 |
For manufacturing output only:
| Country |
2001 |
2002 |
2003 |
2004 |
| United States |
1,460 |
1,463 |
1,523 |
1,623 |
| Japan |
866 |
812 |
894 |
|
| United Kingdom |
220 |
223 |
254 |
298 |
This data shows the United States manufacturing economy is continuing to grow and is solidly the largest manufacturing economy: which contradicts what many believe. It is true manufacturing jobs are decreasing in the United States and worldwide - China is losing far more manufacturing jobs than the USA.
I including some information on the manufacturing economy in my post to the Curious Cat Science and Engineering blog: Phony Science Gap? and referenced my previous post here, Manufacturing and the Economy which reminded me that I wanted some updated data.
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